User talk:John E Bravo
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[edit] From Glenn Wheeler
Hi, I wasn't sure if you wanted this post under glenn Wheeler or on your talk page. So I've mirrored it on both. FT2 (Talk | email) 14:03, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
- The deletion policy is easy to read, and it's not intended to put people off Wikipedia. If the article has a good reason to exist (which doesn't take much) then it will surely find advocates and not be deleted at all. It's completely neutral and not directed at any person.
- The reason there's a deletion policy is because Wikipedia is at heart, an encyclopedia, not just a site to describe any people or website or "thing". It's got a purpose and a focus, like any encyclopedia. Exactly the same as one wouldn't expect Encyclopedia Brittanica to create an article on a person at will, there would have to be a good reason for them to, it's exactly the same here too.
- Hundreds of new articles are created every day, and many of them survive to become major articles, many are removed. You have to ask yourself, is there anything special about a person or thing, that makes them deserve a place in an encyclopedia, more than just "someone wants to be there" or "someone might one day be curious to look them up". That's enough for a website, but no serious encyclopedia has articles created "just because". There is always a criterion for a good reason. I'm sure if you read Wikipedia's article on what Wikipedia is and isn't, you'll understand better some of the criteria we use.
- In the meantime be aware that Articles for Deletion isn't something imposed by diktat. Its a tag suggesting that some random user thinks a particular subject isn't within the guidelines of this encyclopedia, and asking others their opinions. If you read the deletion criteria here, you can learn about the guidelines that should be applied, and if you think your article meets them, and the deletion suggestion does not in fact match the policy, then please do say so on the deleteion discussion page itself.
- In the meantime I hope you will take this well, and understand that we have to operate some form of criteria, and by reading them you can be sure your next contributions will fall squarely within Wikipedia's guidelines and gain others support in improving them long term.
[edit] User categorisation
Hello,
I'd just thought I'd let you know why I modified your user page... as this isn't all that usual. Your categories you chose for your user page are not user-categorization categories, so it would be inappropriate for your page to appear in article space categories. Sorry if I offended you in this action.
132.205.44.134 04:13, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
